FFW: VICE

Welcome to the materials from this webinar!

Webinar Description

Date: Friday, November 2, 2018

Time: 10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT

Presenters: Tyson Swetnam, Upendra Devisetty, Cory Hirsch

Description:

How can you pro=
cess 100GB of data using a computational notebook like Jupyter or Zeppelin<=
/a>, and the R Shiny app or visualize a point cloud with a billion points in your browser? Ho=
w do you securely share these apps, data, and analyses with your collaborat=
ors and community?

To effec=
tively use these amazing tools with real-world data requires computational =
resources (CPU, RAM, storage) beyond what is available on laptops/desktops =
or through hosted platforms like shinyapps.io and mybinder. Additionally, installation for these tools is often =
challenging and requires fairly specific versions of software libraries.

With this webinar, CyVerse in=
troduces VICE (Visual I<=
/span>nteractive Computing Environment), an extension to the CyVerse Discovery Environment<=
span style=3D"color: rgb(0,0,0);"> (DE). It enables users to launch modern =
data science Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) including Project J=
upyter, RStudio, and Shiny, without having to download data or move to anot=
her platform to analyze the results from analysis workflows. As a fully int=
egrated piece of the CyVerse data management platform, VICE handles transfe=
rring data and returning the results back to the Data Store for you securel=
y.

CyVerse users can take a=
dvantage of many existing VICE-based applications or request creation of a =
customized version. This introductory webinar will demonstrate how to use V=
ICE-based applications and how to design a workflow for creating your own a=
pplication.

For those inter=
ested in using notebooks and creating applications using Jupyter and R Shin=
y, we will do a live demonstration and walkthrough for using and creating a=
pplications in VICE.

Come a=
nd explore how VICE and its easy-to-use web-interface can help streamline y=
our research, allowing you to focus more on science and less on software in=
stallations.

Upendra Kumar Devisetty earned his =
Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, UK and completed Postdoctoral Stud=
ies at the University of California, Davis and Oregon State University. He =
has broad bioinformatics experience with particular expertise in Next =
Generation Sequencing and RNA Sequencing. He is currently a Science Informa=
tician at CyVerse, where he focuses on building tools and apps using Docker=
and Singularity, supporting External Collaborative Partnership (ECP) proje=
cts, and helping teach new users how to use components of the CyVerse infra=
structure. He has published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals&n=
bsp;and has been invited to speak at several international conferences.